I loved the hard rock and metal played on WSOU when I lived in Middlesex County.
I remember back in the late 80's when Kean College had a weak station that used to try to compete with WSOU. SOU is 89.5 and WKNJ was 90.3. My buddy and I used to ride our bikes over to the building the KNJ studio was in and they'd let us answer the phones. And because they were truly stupid college kids they'd let us drink their beer too.
When I lived in Monmouth County near the coast those stations were never an issue. Here in western Monmouth County now, I get a way better signal from 92.3fm by far.
I went to Kean back then. We all listened to WSOU in the parking lot. Didn't even know Kean had a radio station.
I'll always remember it as K-Rock for so many years.End of an era. Its last incarnation was Alt 92.3 but everyone will best remember it as KRock. The pinnacle of Howard Stern before he became a joke. Any Generation Xer was so blessed to listen to this station during the grunge movement. Music sucks now and radio is dead but we still have our memories and all those old tunes from yesteryear
Legendary N.Y. radio station plays its last tune as it switches formats
ALT 92.3, formally known as "Disco 92" and "K-Rock," was once home to Howard Stern's show. It played its last song Thursday.www.nj.com
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Was there one for Leslie West of Mountain?
What's going on with that? Still worried about COVID or just the current state of NYC? He's turning into Howard Hughes or those ladies in Grey Gardens. Edit: Sorry, just skimmed the story- still nuts over COVID.I liked the HD2 feed of Krock. It was called Fresh Stuff or something like that.
Howard has become a shell of his former self. He's worse than Imus.
Apparently, he has hidden away in his mansion on Long Island since Feb. 2020. He is coming to the studio for the first time in over 2 years on Monday to interview Bruce Springsteen, but he tried to do the interview remotely. What a wuss he is.
Howard Stern reveals studio return for Bruce Springsteen interview
The Boss requested Howard Stern’s presence in the studio for his first interview on “The Howard Stern Show.”
Don't get me started. There is a long thread on one of the Springsteen forums about the interview, and many fans think it will be great. Wonder if Howard will be old Howard and ask all sorts of sexually provocative questions. He will definitely project his own daddy issues on to Bruce and they will probably commiserate there. He will also do his usual playing snippets of hits and asking Bruce annoyingly, "Do you remember this song?"--while he is playing Born to Run. Then, as Bruce starts to answer, Robin and Howard will interrupt every third word with their answers. Baba Booey will be in heaven, and will probably cry.
I think it is less about the digitization of music and more how they are run. So many music stations are hardly music anymore. More about a funny DJ(s) and a short play list. WMMR, aside from their morning show, lets the DJs control what music is played. Very few repeats. If it's in the vaults (vinyl and digital) it can be played. Some are very creative with a theme of the day.
It's surprising that it does. You now have the ability to listen to every song you've ever loved on demand without commercials
It's a generational thing. Radio stations around here play nothing that came out after 1989.
It's funny if you just look up your favorites only, you will get tired of them over time. I call it the Boston disaster as they were so overplayed by all stations I hate them all now lol.
One of my good friends from HS worked there. Did you know Opie? We used to call and request Eye of the Tiger all the time as a gag. If they put us live on the air we’d press play on my stereo and get a few notes on the air before they cut us off. Lol
Blonde curly hair (maybe it was red IDK)? Now I was a kid so everybody looked tall, but was he a taller guy? There was Tim The Crow, this blonde guy and a short Spanish guy with a heavy accent.
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that is not very interesting. We go to Arizona several time per year. The Phoenix and surrounding area has some fantastic stations. KUPD is a great hard rock station. KKLD (The Cloud) is a fun "hits" station playing hit songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s. The commercials on KUPD are fun to listen to.
Exactly. From a "radio" perspective, there's nothing more satisfying than the serendipity of coming across one of your favorite songs when scanning around on the radio - much better than simply playing it yourself, IMO. I have a few hundred GB of songs on my laptop, nearly 1000 albums and over 1000 CDs, but I only occasionally listen to most of that music, as I like skimming around the radio dial (both terrestrial radio and SiriusXM) hunting for new songs (or older songs I've never heard before) to discover. I have a few hundred pics of songs from my car display (for SiriusXM stations) so I can go back and find them later and if I hear something on terrestrial radio, I'll either write down a key lyric or hope the DJ announces the song.
